French-English translations for timide

shy
us
They are too embarrassed or they are worried or they are shy. Ils sont soit trop gênés, soit trop inquiets, soit trop timides. He was averse to hoo-ha, could be very obstinate, yet was at times almost shy. Il avait l'esbroufe en horreur, pouvait se montrer extrêmement têtu et à d'autres moments presque timide. However, on reading the EU 2020 strategy and our parliamentary resolution, I find that our ambitions are limited to a shy flirtation with the free market economy. A la lecture de la Stratégie Europe 2020 et de notre résolution parlementaire, je constate cependant que nos ambitions se limitent au flirt timide avec l'économie libérale du marché.
timid
us
The answer is far too little, far too timidly. La réponse est: bien trop peu, bien trop timidement. Both, frankly, are far too timid in that regard. Elles sont franchement, dans un cas comme dans l'autre, beaucoup trop timides. To summarise, I see some timid signs of recovery. En résumé, je perçois quelques signes timides de relance.

coy
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I should like to draw your attention to one point over which the Commission has been a little coy: the need to have a European authority. Je voudrais attirer l'attention sur un point, à l'égard duquel la Commission est un peu timide: la nécessité d'avoir une autorité européenne.
abashed
afraid
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It may be that you still feel shy, or perhaps you were more anxious than you probably will be after some time has passed – although you should always be a little bit afraid! Vous étiez peut-être un peu timides ou peut-être étiez-vous inquiets, mais vous le serez certainement moins au fil du temps quoique je vous conseille d’être toujours un peu inquiets! He is afraid of deathHe is afraid to die
anxious
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It may be that you still feel shy, or perhaps you were more anxious than you probably will be after some time has passed – although you should always be a little bit afraid! Vous étiez peut-être un peu timides ou peut-être étiez-vous inquiets, mais vous le serez certainement moins au fil du temps quoique je vous conseille d’être toujours un peu inquiets! She was anxious to hear how her test results wereI could tell she was anxious as she was biting her nails
bashfula bashful look
diffident

eerie
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The eerie sounds seemed to come from the graveyard after midnight
faintheartedIn my view, this was not an ambitious summit; it was fainthearted. Ce n'était pas à mon avis un sommet ambitieux. C'était trop timide.
Great Prominent
pusillanimous
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Third, the reaction of European societies, European governments and the EU has, so far, been unsatisfactory: timid, faint-hearted, pusillanimous, politically correct, or no reaction at all. Troisièmement, la réaction des sociétés européennes, des gouvernements européens et de l'UE est jusqu'ici décevante: timide, irrésolue, pusillanime, politiquement correcte, voire totalement absente. The soldier deserted his troop in a pusillanimous manner.
skittish
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The cat likes people he knows, but he is skittish around strangers.
timorous